Claudia Bernardi is an installation artist and printmaker whose artwork is impacted by war and the post war period. Born in Argentina, Bernardi was affected by the military junta (1976-1983) that caused 30,000 “desaparecidos”. Bernardi participated with the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team exhuming mass graves in investigations of human rights violations. In 2005 Bernardi created the School of Art and Open Studio of Perquin,El Salvador, a community based art project where children, youth and adults work collaboratively. Bernardi is Professor of Community Arts at the California College of the Arts where she designs classes on art and human rights in Latin America.